Quaternary marine terraces as indicators of neotectonic activity of the Ierapetra normal fault SE Crete (Greece)

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 38-46

  Gaki Papanastassiou, K ^a   Karymbalis, E ^b   Papanastassiou, D ^c   Maroukian, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Marine terraces; Morphotectonics; Normal fault; Palaeoshorelines; Sea level; Slip rates

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; COASTAL ZONE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SLIP RATE; TERRACE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TREND ANALYSIS; UPLIFT;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58249087044     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.037     Document Type: Article

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